• Hi guys, I keep getting directed back to install.php. I have the exact scenario of how to trigger this to happen:

    1. I am hosting a eCommerce site using WooCommerce plugin
    2. I create a new product/blog post/post
    3. For some reason, I will change the URL of the post for publishing purposes
    – Example, I might draft a post and name it domain.com/12345
    – When I am ready to publish, I will rename it to domain.com/how-to-post
    4. After Changing the URL, when I click publish, my whole site will direct to the domain.com/install.php site and prompt me to install WordPress
    5. After leaving it for 30mins – 1hour, my site will work fine again with the Changes saved.

    Summary, everytime I edit the URL of any post, this issue will happen. This might be unavoidable because I have separate authors to upload posts. Author 1 will upload all the necessary information into the post and name it with a Code number. Owner will then instruct Author 2 to re-write post by providing the Code number. Author 2 will re-write, rename and change the URL. This is the process flow.

    I understand this is probably some database issue because of changing Post URL, but I believe this should not happen.

    Is there anyway I can prevent this from happening? Any advise please? Because we upload multiple posts daily and it will be a huge problem if we need to wait 1 hour for each post. Consuming too much resources.

    Thank you.

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  • Stop editing your permalink urls!

    Thread Starter jeffryc

    (@jeffryc)

    hey esmi, thanks for your advise. I understand this should be the case. But because of our process flow, we came to this solution. 1 person will upload details to a new post and another person will rewrite the post into meaningful words.

    Anyway, since we have done it for quite some time, 6 months and hundreds of post, is there any bad impact on my site? May I know what is the impact and what happens when I change the permalink url? Because in the end it still work.

    Your advise is if i need to change permalink url, i should delete and add a new post?

    Yes – you could delete. Or you could set up a couple of “scratch” draft posts where the new content would be added. This could then be copied to and edited in a nice fresh new post with the correct title (and hence, permalink) right from the start.

    You’re attempting to use the option to edit a permalink in a way that it was never intended to be used. So you are likely to sometimes get unpredictable results. To be honest, I’m not sure what the large scale, long term effects might be – probably because I’ve not come across anyone changing permalinks on this scale before – but gut instinct says it may not be good.

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